You will also need some tubed images to decorate your
leaf. You may download some supplies here,
or use your own.

Remember to save as a .psd file
often!

1. Open your grapevine wreath. In top menu, click Image >
Duplicate. Close the original. We will work off the copy.

2. In the
Layer Palette, click on the top wreath layer. Mine is Layer 6.

3.
Open up the leaf tubes. Click on one leaf tube to make it active (blue
box). Then in the layer palette, click on the leaf layer, hold the left
mouse button down, and drag that layer over to your wreath and release.
You have just added the leaf layer as a new layer to your wreath.

4. Open
the second leaf tube, and drag its layer over to your wreath. Now you have
two leaf layers on your wreath image. With the mover tool, move them into
position over the wreath.

5.
Right-click on the first leaf layer and choose duplicate.

6. In
top menu, click Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. This will make the
leaf face the other way. With the mover tool, move the leaf into position.

7.
Continue duplicating leaf layers (alternate between your two leafs) and flipping
as necessary, until you cover your entire wreath.

8. In
the Layer Palette, find the wreath layer that you had highlighted in #2.
Starting with that layer and EVERY layer below that one, HIDE those layers by
clicking on the eye. You can see in the picture above that the eyes for
the wreath layers are invisible.

9. In top menu, click Layer > Merge Visible

Now all your
leaves are merged into one layer.

10. In the Layer Palette, left click
and drag the leaf layer below the first four wreath layers (into the middle).
Watch as you are dragging. When you get to between 2 layers, there will be
a double line like in the pic below (between layer 5 and 4). When you get
that between the two layers that you want, release and the leaf layer will have
moved there.

11. Now click on the leaf layer to highlight it. With the magic
wand, click on the transparent areas. Hold down the SHIFT key to select
all of the transparent areas (inside the wreath and outside).

12. In
top menu, click Select > Inverse. Now the leaves are selected.

13. In
the Layer Palette, click on one of the vine layers above the leaves.
Choose your eraser tool and erase part of the vine (I set mine to size =10.
You will erase parts of that vine in different places, to make it look
like the vine weaves in and out of the leaves.

14.
Now repeat Step 14 for the other three vine layers that are ABOVE the leaf
layer.

15. In top menu, click Select > Deselect

16. Now open up
your other tubes, and drag them one by one onto your wreath. I have
included a leaf nymph and a pair of squirrels for you to use, but you can add
other things such as acorns, nuts, and pinecones.

17. If the tube is too
large for the wreath, you can adjust its size. In top menu, click Edit >
Transform > Scale. In the top tool options bar, click on the icon that
looks like a chain. This will lock the scale so that when you adjust it,
the image will remain in proper proportion. In your image
below you should see a deformation box around your tube. Take one of the
corners, and left-click and drag inward toward the center of the tube to shrink
the tube image to an appropriate size.

Do this for all your tubes that
you add, if necessary.

18. When you are satisfied with your wreath,
click on Layers > Merge Visible.

19. Resize if necessary: Image >
Image Size. I usually make mine no bigger than 375 pixels.